kid arrested for clock invited to the White House

[cojoel]

https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/644193755814342656

[Gidney N Cloyd]

1. OMG, someone has to warn them!

[TheBlackAdder]

52. The irony is... $50 says that the Secret Service will inspect it before the President does! nt

[hobbit709]

54. But they will know what they're looking at and not go into idiot panic mode.

[think]

2. Bravo

[malaise]

3. How lovely

Thank you President Obama

[CincyDem]

4. Maybe BHO can share the kid's clock with Congress...

...so they'll be able to tell how much time they're wasting on bullchit kind of chit.

[Enthusiast]

55. PLUS ONE, a huge bunch!

[Baitball Blogger]

5. LOVE IT!

[pampango]

6. Uh-oh. A "Muslim terrorist" in the White House, just like the republican base warned us about!

[YoungDemCA]

8. I thought there was one there already

[L. Coyote]

30. Fox News Headline: Muslim terrorists to gather in the White House.

[Daemonaquila]

7. Hah! Awesome!

I'm mad at Obama over a lot of things, and then he does something cool again and makes me set some of that aside.

[Arugula Latte]

9. Time telling is a commie plot.

[Ed Suspicious]

14. Tme is a construct of the ownership class.

[mnhtnbb]

10. Cool move, Mr. President.

That ought piss 'em off in Texas!

[dae]

11. Man that sucks,

i was never invited to the WH when I was suspended from school!
Way to go Ahmed, you get the last laugh on those imbeciles!

[McCamy Taylor]

12. Thanks. This ought to throw cold water on the Irving police.

[Starry Messenger]

13. k&r

[closeupready]

15. Yay! Irving police spokesperson said that Ahmed wouldn't tell them

what the clock was for. I mean, the cop said this on camera, in an interview on US New & World Report's website, and I'm still giggling about that.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

17. There'll be none of that time telling sorcery here, I tell you.

Sun up, it's day. Sun down, it's night. That's all you need to know. Anything else is just plain old showboating.

[closeupready]

19. lol, I know, right?

[ProfessorGAC]

25. He Thinks He's So Big With That Time Keeping Thingie!

Says the guy who never goes anywhere without a watch on.

[gademocrat7]

16. K&R

[appalachiablue]

18. K & R. Bravo and thank you President Obama!

[Nay]

20. Excellent. Those school admins and the cops need to be publicly shamed. nt

[Nye Bevan]

21. Excellent.

What a great president Obama is.

[cantbeserious]

22. Bravo Obama - Well Done

eom

[Lucky Luciano]

23. I freaking knew it! This prooooooves Obama is a muslin!!!!1! nt

[flamin lib]

24. I understand the boy has been suspended from school.

Just as well, he'd have to cut class to go to the Whitehouse anyway.

[ProfessorGAC]

26. Somehow I Think That Suspension Will Be Rescinded

Just a feeling. Can you imagine the size of the egg on the face of that administration right now? This silliness went viral.

[etherealtruth]

27. Insha'Allah

Good for Obama and good for the poor kid.

Idiots ... involved in this mess.

[dumbcat]

28. I STAND WITH AHMED

and good on President Obama. I wish he would "invite" those school officials to the White House at the same time, and then put dunce caps on them for a group photo.

[ljm2002]

29. Excellent...

...and thank you, President Obama, for doing this. That young man surely did not deserve the treatment he got from his school and local police department, but he does deserve the positive attention you are giving him.

K&R

[blackspade]

31. Obama is awesome about this kind of stuff!

[ET Awful]

32. How long until the conservative freak out .. . . OMG He invited a suspected terrorist muslim

to the White House!!!!!

[YOHABLO]

33. Here this young man came to school to show off something that he was proud of >

only to be shot down by some ridiculous school teacher. I hope this kid, when he's working for a hi-tech firm making hundreds of thousands a year, get's the last laugh. The teacher and the school should apologize to him and his family for humiliating them. It's not just Texas that's bonkers with fear, it's all these right wingers in this country who think the boogie man is coming to get them.

[Rex]

34. If you cannot find it in your heart to admire the POTUS, here is a reason to.

This guy gets it. Maybe it took two terms...but he is on the mark with this country and how to deal with the people that live here. Even our kids when someone or a group does them harm.

The POTUS refuses to watch an innocent child's dream get trampled on by a group of right wing morons!

I love this guy!

[smirkymonkey]

35. +1000

[Rex]

37. Obama took that dream and turned it into a bigger dream, the kid get to meet the POTUS!

You have to love the double insight here by the POTUS, the man is a real genius and recognizes it in others.

[smirkymonkey]

38. You have to admire how he turned that disaster right around.

Of course now all his detractors are going to think that this is proof that he's really a muslim.

[Rex]

39. I do love it, it made my day to read about it.

I read the mayor of Irving is a big Trump fan. True expect WorldNutballDaily and whatever the other nutz run to be foaming by closing time today.

"Mooslim proof Obama garble warble bargle arrrrgggleee foam foam foam!!"

[hifiguy]

48. I hope that kid winds up getting a full-ride to

Caltech of MIT.

[Rex]

50. I hope he invents a cold fusion engine and then gets to smirk at every single racist POS in Texas!

I hate what this country is doing to our children. Watch him grow up and find a way to put the oil industry out of business!

[fbc]

57. Because he faked the building of an electronics project?

I don't know if that sends the right message.

He shouldn't have been treated the way he was treated - that's obvious to everyone.

But the kid is caught up in a lie. He said he built a clock. He didn't. He faked the building of a clock by sticking an actual clock in a different box.

[loyalsister]

45. Seriously!

This is a moment where I am bursting with pride to have voted for him 4 times. Someone said that Jimmy Carter was one of the more honorable men to occupy the WH. President Obama is so justice oriented, warm, and compassionate. I find it very soothing to have this president display characteristics of a father who standing up for his kid that encounters injustice.

I'm so proud to have voted for him 4 times!!

[d_legendary1]

36. Someone who recognizes the need to encourage our youth

to continue to study is someone who values education. Its times like this that I'm glad that he's my president!

[rbrnmw]

40. I am gonna miss President Obama

Coolest President ever

[DrBulldog]

41. Bernie would have flown to Texax . . . sitting in the middle seat . . .

. . . and kicked that principal's butt.

[Heeeeers Johnny]

42. May be a bit of irony here

but the Secret Service will probably have to examine it before it's allowed anywhere near the POTUS.

[RufusTFirefly]

43. For those who don't appreciate the value of the Bully Pulpit, here's Exhibit A

[DrBulldog]

44. Lucky kid . . .

. . . he will now be able to go to college free with the eventual major lawsuit settlement that will be coming from the school district. Nice work, principal and teacher! You have just wasted another several million dollars with your stupidity and racism.

[ut oh]

46. What a great response

from Obama!!

[Cheese Sandwich]

47. Wow. That's really cool. I felt so bad for that kid.

Thanks Obama.

[dembotoz]

49. hope there is a better school for the kid...something with a tech basis

so like spock he can live long and prosper

[hamsterjill]

51. Me, too!

This child obviously has great promise, and I hope this incident will only determine him to do great things with that promise.

[fbc]

56. Hopefully he could handle that

Obviously the response from the school and police was horrible, but...

That kid did not build a clock. He put the parts from a clock in a different box. Grade school kids are doing things much more complex than that all over the country. Pretty much any poster on this forum could do the same with a hammer (to destroy the original clock) and some tape.

[eridani]

53. W00t!!! n/t